Chopsticks

Designs On— Packaging

By Gregory Perez and Guoning Hu

An estimated 25 million trees are chopped down every year in China to support the country’s insatiable appetite for disposable chopsticks: 45 billion pairs per annum. Even with the adoption of policies in certain locales to reduce the use of one-off or wooden chopsticks, the environmental impact on forests is immense. These ¥5,000 (about $750), limited-edition chopsticks remind us that wooden chopsticks are, in fact, costly in more ways than one.